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"Everyone knows perfect love in their heart,
for the human heart is a direct channel
through which love pours into this world.

At the same time,
human relationships are
imperfect expressions of that love.

This creates a painful gap between
the perfect love we know in our hearts
and the imperfect,
incomplete ways it is expressed
in our relationships.

When we imagine that the relative human love
should be something it is not
-absolutely unconditional-
we suffer disappointment and
wind up distrusting love itself.

We also hold grievances against others
for not loving us rightly or
against ourselves for not having won that love.

This rise to a universal human wound
-the sense of not feeling loved
for who we are"